The Gambia Youth Chamber of Commerce (GYCC) recently held the second edition of its SkillRise Forum, rallying together dynamic young business leaders and budding entrepreneurs from across the country to discuss entrepreneurship and raging business issues. The SkillRise Forum 2025, held at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre in Bijilo, was marked by…
The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Momodou Sowe, on Thursday, July 10, 2025, received a donated vehicle on behalf of the Gambia Police Force for the Sankandi Police Post at Kiang West, Lower River Region. The vehicle was formally handed over by Amadou Kambi, CEO of Masireh Healthcare Clinic, a registered medical NGO. During the…
Apple Tree International School on Friday held this year’s graduation ceremony for its 2025 batch of students. The event, held at the Coco Ocean Resort in Bijilo, was attended in massive numbers by students’ parents and loved ones, especially those of the graduants, partners and other school stakeholders. The head of the high school division,…
Minister of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, Hon. Fatou Kinteh, on Wednesday 9 July officiated the opening ceremony of a five-day Training of Trainers Workshop on Monitoring and Reporting on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda, utilizing the Continental Results Framework. The training is jointly organised by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social…
President Adama Barrow has appointed Sering Modou Njie as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad with immediate effect. Minister Sering Modou Njie, a seasoned public servant and diplomat, previously served as Minister for Defence. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and a Master’s Degree in International Relations. Minister…
In a decisive day of regional diplomacy, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, on July 7, 2025 hosted four high-level delegations at the ECOWAS Headquarters in Abuja, driving forward key partnerships in fiscal governance, scientific peacebuilding, legal integration, and infrastructure-led development. The strategic consultations, aligned with ECOWAS Vision 2050 and the…
Experienced Gambian football coach and CEO of North Star Academy has unveiled plans that his North Star Academy aims to accomplish in the coming months and years to make an indelible impact in Gambian football and other sports disciplines. Ebou Jarra, who has coached teams such as Talinding United, Gamtel, Real de Banjul, Armed Forces…
The Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology has highlighted the tendency of artificial intelligence becoming the great accelerator of progress or the great divider of humanity. Prof Pierre Gomez made this remark recently at the United Nations Development Programme’s launching of the 2025 Human Development Report at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Senegambia….
The Gambia Police Force has taken in for investigation senior officials of a Quranic school in Sinchu Alagie, where a tragic fire outbreak occurred recently leaving a 12-year-old student dead and another in a critical condition presently hospitalised. The fire outbreak which occurred at Sinchu Alagie Daara (Quranic school) led to the admission of two students…
The Gambia’s Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Seedy K.M. Keita, has issued a powerful call for urgent reforms to the global financial system during the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in Seville, Spain. Speaking at the Third Multi-Stakeholder Round Table on Reforming the International Financial Architecture, Minister Keita highlighted how the…
